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BEMIDJI—Bemidji Police are investigating the Friday-night stabbing of a 20-year-old woman found in the Tesoro parking lot on Fourth Street, according to a news release from the department. Officers responded to a report of an assault in the parking lot at about 8:55 p.m., the release said. Police searched the area and discovered the woman, who was "bleeding profusely from numerous stab wounds." The woman was taken to the Sanford Bemidji Medical Center for treatment. Her name and condition have not been released. http://www.b...
BEMIDJI—A Deer River man is dead after a head-on crash east of Warba, Minn., on Sunday night. Adam Holecek, 30, was traveling west on U.S. Highway 2 at about 8:09 p.m. when his vehicle crossed into the highway's eastbound and and struck a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado head on, according to a Minnesota State Patrol report. Holecek's 2002 Nissan Maxima came to rest in the westbound ditch and he died at the scene. A passenger in the Nissan, Brian Watson, 22, of Grand Rapids, sustained non life-threatening injuries. The Chevrolet ended up in the e...
Nothing is more Minnesotan than wild rice and hotdish. Local chefs are challenged to combine the two for prizes—and glory—on Saturday, Oct. 22. A wild rice hotdish contest will be part of Park Rapids' first-ever celebration of the official state grain. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/4133357-celebrating-wild-rice-caviar-all-grains...
ST. PAUL -- Minnesota's state revenue for the past three months was $97 million below expectations. That is a 2.1 percent drop, Minnesota Management and Budget reported Monday, Oct. 10. All major taxes were below what earlier was expected. Still, the state collected nearly $4.5 billion in July, August and September. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/4133571-minnesota-revenues-below-forecast...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Turkey Research and Promotion Council is currently seeking candidates for five positions on its board of directors for a three year term. Board members must be turkey industry representatives willing to serve as leaders and advocates for the Minnesota turkey industry and to work to improve its profitability and viability. To be considered, a person must share in the profits and risk of loss from producing turkeys during the current or preceding marketing year. This is a great opportunity to help direct the i...
Political Education Committee Canvasser Job Description Qualifications: 1. Be at least 18 years old; 2. Need to have a valid driver's license and automobile insurance Duties: 1. Door to Door voter registration 2. Educate individuals on the importance of voting 3. Instruct individuals on upcoming voter events 4. Distribute nonpartisan literature to households or individuals 6. Keep statistics on contacts made, registration, and number of literature delivered 7. Participate in training 8. Other...
VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 10, 2016 – The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) has issued an open call for applications for a new Mentor Fellowship in the Pacific Northwest, Southwest and Upper Midwest regions of the United States. Applications will be accepted online no later than 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. The Mentor Fellowship is open to accomplished Native artists of 10 years or more in the Traditional Arts or Contemporary Visual Arts categories. An a...
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING Open: September 27, 2016 Closing: October 21, 2016 @ 3:00 p.m. Primary Function: Work within the Entrepreneur Program to assist with the delivery of technical assistance, business education, and entrepreneurial resources. Striving to develop and maintain profitable and self-sustaining Red Lake Band member businesses within the Red Lake Nation economy. Also be aware of the Entrepreneur Program emerging as a 501c3 to...
Allina Health and its nurses reached a tentative agreement around 4 a.m. Tuesday after a 17-hour negotiating session called together by Gov. Mark Dayton at his residence. Terms of the deal weren’t immediately available, but a statement released by Dayton’s office thanked the two sides “for working to reach this tentative agreement, which will allow them to resume the quality health care that Minnesotans need and deserve.” More than 4,000 nurses from five Allina hospitals will now vote whether to accept the contract. Nurses have rejecte...
A driver fleeing police in the south metro was fatally injured in a crash that also killed another motorist in Burnsville Monday night, the state patrol said. The vehicle fleeing from Apple Valley and Burnsville police crashed on County Road 5 and Williams Drive at 8:25 p.m. Another motorist was also killed, state patrol said. The state patrol is investigating the crash and will provide more information Tuesday....
SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it is discontinuing production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones permanently, a day after it halted global sales of the star-crossed devices. The South Korean company said in a regulatory filing that it decided to stop manufacturing Note 7s for the sake of consumer safety. Samsung is struggling to regain consumer trust after a first round of recalls that prompted criticism both for the faulty devices and for the company's handling of the problem. http://www.startribune.co...
Nearly 100 national health and medical groups — including the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — enjoy sponsorships by Coca-Cola Co. or PepsiCo, according to a new study by two Boston University researchers. The report lands as the sugar industry’s supersized role in shaping — and spinning — health policy has come under increasing scrutiny. It also comes as the negative health effects of sugar and sugary drinks, including a link to rising obesity rates, are bette...
LUMBERTON, N.C. — With floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew on the rise, at least one North Carolina city appeared near chaos Monday, its police station shuttered and sporadic gunfire in the air, and authorities worried that more communities could end up the same way. The storm is gone, but it left behind a water-logged landscape where flooding was expected to persist for the rest of the week. At least three rivers were forecast to reach record levels, some not cresting until Friday. In many areas, the scene resembled a repeat of Hurricane F...
House Speaker Paul Ryan dealt a hammer blow to Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy Monday, telling Republican lawmakers that he would no longer defend Trump and would focus instead on defending the party’s majority in Congress. But in an illustration of Trump’s powerful grip on much of the party, Ryan faced angry blowback from conservative lawmakers supportive of Trump. After Ryan announced his decision in a conference call Monday morning, a stream of hard-liners came on the line to urge their colleagues not to give up on Trump, and compl...
SALT LAKE CITY — If the pushback against Donald Trump becomes a Republican Party revolt, it could be said that it got its start in Utah. Gov. Gary Herbert was the first elected official to pull his endorsement from Donald Trump as conservatives recoiled from a recording of Trump boasting of how his fame allowed him to impose himself on women. Other prominent Utah Republicans soon joined him. Sen. Mike Lee, Reps. Jason Chaffetz, Chris Stewart and Mia Love, and former Gov. Jon Huntsman all called for Trump to abandon his campaign. Lee, who's i...
Here’s a question with a seemingly simple answer: Shouldn’t Native Americans have the same rights to develop their land, if they choose to do so, as other Americans? That question was the topic of a field hearing held by the U.S. House Natural Resource Committee last week in Santa Fe. The hearing examined how federal control of Indian lands often prevents tribes from capitalizing on their natural resources – a policy based on an outdated notion that tribes are incapable of managing their lands themselves. Although the government pays lip servi...
A high-profile student and activist in Saskatoon says she was kicked out of a pop-up Halloween shop for calling out an offensive costume on sale in the store. Zoey Roy claims the manager of the Spirit Halloween store on 51st Street escorted her out of the shop Sunday after she tried to bring up her issue with a “Native American” costume intended for young girls. “It looked really cheap and it said ‘Native American,’ as if Native American was a costume you can put on once a year,” Roy told CTV News. http://saskatoon.ctvnews.c...
Construction on the controversial and costly Dakota Access Pipeline can resume after a federal appeals court turned away the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for now. In a short order issued on Sunday evening, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an administrative injunction that had put a halt to construction in a key area of North Dakota. The decision means the company can continue work in areas where the tribe has documented the presence of sacred sites and burial grounds. But the court noted that Dakota Access has yet to secure approval for...
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II vowed to continue fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline (DAPL) after a three-judge panel on Sunday October 9 denied the tribe’s request for an injunction that would have stopped the pipeline’s progress through treaty-protected, sacred burial grounds. “The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is not backing down from this fight,” said Archambault in a statement after the decision came down at 4 p.m. “We are guided by prayer, and we will continue to fight for our people. We will not rest until our lands...
Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney is helping with law enforcement at the protest sites and he called today's actions a "riot". "While some would like to say this was a protest, this was not a protest this was a riot," said Sheriff Laney. "When you have that many people engage in that kind of behavior, inciting others to break the law, cheering others on as they do break the law, refusing to leave when they're asked to leave, that's not a protest." The latest protests took place at a pipeline construction site about 2 miles south of St. Anthony,...
Historical trauma is one of the main factors that brought more than 300 Native American nations and thousands of people together at Standing Rock to fight and mobilize against the Dakota Access pipeline, Dennis Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement, told Abby Martin in her latest episode of "The Empire Files." “Historical trauma is still with us,” Banks said adding that “When Standing Rock happened all this trauma” made other tribes across the United States say “hey we are gonna go support them at all costs.” Over the past few weeks,...
BISMARCK, N.D. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won’t yet authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said Monday, along with reiterating its earlier request that the pipeline company voluntarily stop work on private land in the area. The corps’ statement came in the wake of a federal appeals court ruling Sunday that allowed construction to resume on the pipeline within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. That ruling sparked a large protest Monday in North Dakota that led...
When I was a child, my late mother would call today’s holiday “Genocide Day,” in honor of the many ancestors of ours who lost their lives or were raped and pillaged when they were “colonized” by Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) and his men during discovery voyages to the Americas. Today is Columbus Day in many states, and the institutional genocide against Native people is still happening everywhere in the world. Lands and vital natural resources are being stolen — what’s left of them, that is. Few situations are more visible than...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will keep fighting the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline after a federal court rejected its request to halt construction on the project, which the tribe says would destroy some of its sacred sites, the tribe's chairman told NBC News on Sunday night. In a two-page ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the tribe's request for a permanent injunction to block the $3.7 billion, 1,170-mile pipeline, which would transport 470,000 barrels of oil a day across four states. The...
Entire books could be written about the topics that were ignored at Sunday's presidential debate in St. Louis. But on the eve of Columbus Day, the noticeable silence around Native American issues from Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, their campaigns and the debate moderators seemed especially blatant — and typical of how indigenous people get brushed aside by mainstream electoral politics. "It's nothing new, obviously," said Dina Gilio-Whitaker, a policy director at the Center for World Indigenous Studies and co-author of All the Real Indians D...